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CROSS CAMPUS Never let go. On Monday, University Chief Information Officer Len Peters announced that the Yale email accounts for the newest class of alumni will remain active one full year after they received their diplomas. 2014 grads around the real world reminisced over panlists past.

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Quarantined Ebola researcher goes public

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS AND RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTERS The Yale graduate student whose fever spurred panic about the possibility of Ebola in Connecticut just under two weeks ago publicly identified himself Monday night on cable television.

Skyping into The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC from his home, Ryan Boyko GRD ’18, a

Ph.D candidate in the School of Public Health’s epidemiology of microbial diseases department, spoke publicly for the first time about his experience at YaleNew Haven Hospital, what it is like to live in quarantine and his opinions on the state’s current quaratine policy, which he said is unnecessary and not rooted in science. Boyko’s televised appearance is the first time either of the two researchers who returned from Liberia and

were quarantined have identified themselves publicly.

Boyko said that throughout his stay at YNHH and his quarantine, health officials appeared unsure as to how to move forward. Boyko was admitted to YNHH on Oct. 15 after developing a fever, was placed in isolation immediately and tested for the virus. Although two separate tests came back negative, he was still placed under quarantine as required by a state mandate.

“It wasn’t clear right away what was happening,” Boyko said. “There was a miscommunication between the state and local officials and the police.”

Boyko added that Connecticut’s current quarantine policy is not backed by scientific evidence. Instead, the policy makes it less likely that health care workers will travel to West Africa to provide medical aid because they will be required to stay in quarantine for three weeks upon

their return. Most medical workers spend four weeks in West Africa before returning to their countries of origin, so the quarantine would nearly double the time that the workers are away from their jobs, he said.

Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin said that a three-week quarantine is concerning because it will disincentive health care workers from coming and going SEE BOYKO PAGE 6

Checking in from China.

University President Peter Salovey reported to the Yale community from Beijing in an email yesterday. On-hand to finalize the opening of the new Yale Center Beijing, Salovey also previewed a series of panels on tech, globalization and development.

Spring Fling on a tight budget

GS. Applications to the Studies in Grand Strategy program were due last night, but those applying are almost inherently diligent enough to know when deadlines are.

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The other GS. The economics counterparts of the highintensity global affairs/ history/political science majors applying to Grand Strategy will likely be in The Study tonight for the Goldman Sachs information session.

cial limits.

“We are going to get it done, but [the people on the committee] are definitely under what I would characterize as excessive constraints because our Student Activities Fee is so much lower than our peer institutions,” he said.

Some universities’ spring concert budgets are three

The New Haven Board of Education moved one step closer to a major structural reform last night, as the Joint Aldermanic Affairs/Education Committee voted on ordinances about the selection of elected members and student representatives on the Board of Ed. The Board of Ed is currently composed of seven mayoral appointees and Mayor Toni Harp herself. But under the reforms, approved by voters in November 2013 as an amendment to the Town Charter, the Board will consist of five mayoral appointees, two elected members and two non-voting student representatives from New Haven Public Schools. City law dictates that the Board of Alders specify the details of this structural revision by Jan. 1 of next year.

The ordinance that passed unanimously last night said that students seeking to run for the position will face no requirements regarding grade point average or school attendance record. The selection process for the two student representatives has proved contentious in recent weeks. While some alders believe that the representatives should face no requirements, others think that the city should enforce a grade point average qualification.

Ward 18 Alder Salvatore DeCola has been vocal on the issue of student representatives, coming out strongly against the imposition of grade qualifications. DeCola questioned the notion that the city should restrict the pool of candidates eligible to run.

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Things. The YEI announced

a new “Internet of Things” prize, capturing the simultaneous ambiguity and potency of technological innovation these days. $10,000 to the two startup groups to come up with the best “things,” the Monday announcement explained.

Das Talk. The AACC, along with other constituent groups, will be hosting Indian actress and director Nandita Das this evening at La Casa Cultural.

Up for discussion (over food): “Infinite Identities.”

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Yale’s Spring Fling festivities are largely funded from the annual SAF, which is among the lowest in the Ivy League.

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ing to plan the event with a limited budget. Funding for Spring Fling comes largely from the annual SAF — which, along with Harvard’s fee, is the lowest in the Ivy League. As a result, Yale’s Spring Fling budget was the second-lowest of its peer institutions last year. According to YCC President Michael Herbert ’16, the dean’s office decision will force the Spring Fling Committee to operate within tight finan-

Motion denied. Justice Samuel Alito was denied Sunday brunch at the overbooked Study because he did not have a reservation, according to AboveTheLaw.com. Even upon learning Alito’s identity, the hostess stood her ground because not even the Supreme Court is above restaurant law.

In planning for the University’s largest party, student organizers are facing tight costs and tough decisions.

Months after the Yale College Dean’s Office postponed a proposal to increase the student activities fee, the Yale College Council’s Spring Fling Committee is work-

Playing Swensen. A Monday piece by SeekingAlpha.com entitled “How to invest like the Ivy League Endowments with ETFs” encouraged readers to model investments after successful portfolios like Harvard’s and even more successful ones like Yale’s.

Obama to stump for Malloy

We want you. Today’s YPU debate with political science professor Jason Stanley tackles the role of propaganda in society and its influences on democracy. Promotions contained the ever-emphatic portrait of Uncle Sam. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1993 Esteemed philosophy professor Jonathan Lear ’70 announces that he is taking a position at the University of Chicago, continuing an exodus from the department.

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BY OSCAR GARCIA-RUIZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This weekend, Gov. Dannel Malloy will join a small club: Democratic governors willing to campaign alongside President Barack Obama ahead of next Tuesday’s election.

While Obama’s low approval ratings have caused some Democrats to distance themselves in the run-up to the midterms, Malloy plans to campaign with both the president and First Lady Michelle Obama. The two Obamas plan to come to Connecticut this weekend on separate visits.

Obama had planned to visit to Bridgeport, Conn. last week to rally for Malloy, but the event was cancelled at the last minute as the administration worked to halt the spread of Ebola. The Connecticut Democratic Party announced last

week that the president had rescheduled his visit to Connecticut for this Sunday — two days before the polls open.

Meanwhile, the first lady, who recently released a radio ad in support of Malloy, plans to make an appearance at a New Haven rally in support of Malloy this Thursday at Wilbur Cross High School, the New Haven Independent reported.

Malloy is currently locked in one of the tightest gubernatorial races across the country. According to a Quinnipiac poll released this week, Malloy and Republican candidate Tom Foley are within one percentage point of each other in terms of voter support.

“If the president can move half a percent of the electorate towards Malloy, then I think its’s a win for Malloy,” said SEE OBAMA PAGE 6

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BULLDOGS TIE AT HOME The women’s soccer team has had some scoring woes this season, but the Bulldogs managed a late second-half goal from forward Melissa Gavin ’15 to tie the Penn Quakers on Saturday. See page 12.

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t is now 2014. That’s eight years after the release of “An Inconvenient Truth” and the Stern Review, 17 years after the signing of the Kyoto Protocol and 26 years after James Hensen first testified before Congress about the dangers of human-induced climate change on international security.

And with each passing year, the imperative to act on climate change only grows stronger.

But instead of having a spirited debate about how best to combat what our own President Salovey calls the greatest challenge of our time, the Connecticut gubernatorial election has stooped to a much lesser squabble: whether humans have actually caused climate change in the first place.

Republican candidate Tom Foley, who is currently tied in the polls with Governor Dan Malloy, has refused to acknowledge the solid scientific evidence that human-induced climate change exists.

In fact, when asked point blank about the issue in a recent debate, Foley dodged the question entirely. His exact words: “I think it doesn’t really matter.”

Quite frankly, hearing this refrain over and over again from the right wing of the Republican Party is extraordinarily frustrating. Not because they are so clearly wrong about the basic facts of environmental science (they are), and not even because their lack of action will surely lead to further environmental destruction (it will), but because I know that my Republican peers deserve better.

I still distinctly remember a forum the Yale College Republicans hosted during my freshman year on “free-market solutions to climate change.”

They had moved past the fringe position of climate denial and marched forward with their own solutions to the problem in a way that aligned with their free market values. Even as a progressive, I was proud. It seemed my generation, whatever the cynics may say, had collectively shaken off the ignorance of climate deniers and come together to solve our most urgent crisis.

Certainly, we haven’t always agreed with each other on environmentalism here on campus. In the ongoing debate over divestment, for example, student activists have consistently demanded that the University divest from fossil fuels, and the Yale Corporation has consistently refused to do so. It’s

a complex issue, but the Corporation never denied that climate c h a n g e was an e x t re m e l y TYLER dangerBLACKMON ous problem worth addressing.

Back to In fact, Blackmon the prevailing question on campus has never been whether climate change exists, or even whether humans are the principal drivers of climate change.

President Salovey, as much as I may disagree with him on divestment, never twiddled his thumbs and said something as preposterous as, “I’m not an expert on global warming, so I haven’t had a chance to read all the reports and have an independent opinion” — as Foley said at the debate.

Yale’s administration and student body simply get it: Climate change is real, and we need to act now.

But the same cannot be said of Foley. We are now a decade and a half into the 21st century, yet we still have a candidate running for governor of Connecticut who refuses to acknowledge humans’ role in climate change. That position should be unacceptable to anyone in my generation, regardless of party affiliation.

In the short run, we should deny Foley a platform from which to spew ignorance on a national stage. But in the long run, young Republicans should demand more from their leaders. They should vote in primaries and insist that any person who wants their vote step forward not just with an unambiguous commitment to addressing climate change but with a specific plan to put words into action.

There is a real debate to be had about how aggressively and with what tactics we should fight climate change. And it’s a debate that will require the smartest minds from every field and every major political party.

But it is no longer acceptable for either party to recklessly refuse to believe that we are contributing to climate change.

TYLER BLACKMON is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. He is elections coordinator for the Yale College Democrats. His columns run on alternate Tuesdays. Contact him at tyler.blackmon@yale.edu .

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Why affirmative consent matters

No to yes-means-yes

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or all the criticism it’s received, California’s affirmative consent law is a major step in the right direction. Colleges in California must adopt new “victim-centered” sexual assault protocols in order to receive state funding for student financial aid. These protocols mandate that victims of sexual assault receive appropriate information, care and support in a prompt manner.

No one, absolutely no one, should take issue with these measures. There is a long institutional history of colleges failing to provide swift and adequate services to victims of sexual assault. Now we have a law disincentivizing such behavior. Makes sense.

The bill calls for “a comprehensive, trauma-informed training program for campus officials” aimed at adjudicating cases of sexual assault.

It seems pretty clear that the administrators dealing with sexual assault should know about sexual assault. Just like economists should know about currency and physicists about gravity.

Colleges will have to implement an “affirmative-consent” standard for determining whether sexual assault has taken place. The law defines affirmative consent as “affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity.” This definition implicitly restates what everyone already knows: Without consent, it’s rape, not sex. By definition. Period.

The law goes on to say that, “affirmative consent must be ongoing throughout a sexual activity and can be revoked at any time.” Well, if non-consensual sex is rape, and at any point sex becomes non-consensual, we have a case of rape.

Unless you dispute the definition of rape, this conclusion necessarily follows. And why might consent be revoked? I have no idea. It’s none of my business. It’s still rape.

Some have objected that the law leaves “affirmative” uncomfortably nebulous, especially given the characteristic ambiguity of many sexual assault cases. But no one could seriously object to what doesn't qualify as affirmative consent under the law.

“Lack of protest or resistance does not mean consent.”

Unless you believe consent is reducible to physical action, there’s nothing inherently contradictory there. Power

dynamics could easily explain a lack of resistance. Most men are, on average, physically stronger than women.

This means that men are generally more capable of forcibly coercing women into submission. The threat of physical harm, explicit or not, is just one of many reasons why passive body language is not a green light.

“Silence does not constitute consent.” Yeah, no kidding.

Silence could mean any number of things: being swept up in the beauty of the moment, being seriously unsure of what to do in an unsettling situation, being afraid of someone’s menacing advances. Not a very good indicator of consent.

The law lacks a precise, positive definition of affirmative consent, but what this legislation actually boils down to is mostly common sense.

While pundits have been locked in a partisan debate over what exactly California’s legislation will or will not do, they’ve failed to grasp the real reason it matters. Laws cannot govern reality if they are out of step with it, and this law closes the divide between legislation and reality.

California’s law is not perfect. Its insistence that a “preponderance of the evidence” standard determine the outcome of college sexual assault cases needs to be seriously reexamined. As 28 Harvard Law professors described in an open letter to the Boston Globe, this type of provision unfairly threatens the rights of the accused. Frankly, I am skeptical as to whether any sound legal principle justifies such evidentiary standards.

Still, most of the law’s recommendations assist the victim and do not unfairly burden the accused. Moreover, the law operates under a comprehensive, agreeable definition of rape that should have been adopted a long time ago.

Our justice system works best when it actually understands the problems it seeks to correct. California’s affirmative consent law may be imperfect in its current form, but it pushes the legal conception of rape in the right direction. We should not forget its mistakes — but we should remember its successes.

AARON SIBARIUM is a freshman in Timothy Dwight College. Contact him at aaron.sibarium@yale.edu .

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n Sept. 28, California enacted Senate Bill 967, becoming the first state to pass a so-called “yes-means-yes” or “affirmative consent” law.

That sounds nice. But what does it actually mean? Under California law, rape is nonconsensual sex. During a romantic or sexual interaction, the default assumption is now that nothing short of explicit, verbal consent counts as consent. “Lack of protest or resistance does not mean consent,” write the authors of the bill, “nor does silence mean consent.” Every college in California must now tailor its regulations to comply with this law.

Before we further dive into the argument, allow me to clarify: Acts of rape and sexual assault clearly do happen, and one case of rape or sexual assault is a case too many.

These cases are particularly prevalent on our college campuses. This is not — and should not be — a partisan issue. Critics of SB 967 ought not to be automatically labeled “victim-blamers” or relegated to a Todd Akin level of infamy. While the American left and the right disagree on many topics, there is an overwhelming consensus that sexual assault is reprehensible and that the high rates of these acts in our society are completely unacceptable.

So what’s the solution? When it comes to this question, legislators have become inexplicably lazy.

Rather than attack the sources of the problem or crack down on perpetrators of sexual assault, legislators across the country have opted to uncontrollably expand the definition of rape and sexual assault.

Yalies encounter these definitions the moment we arrive in New Haven. During freshman orientation, the Yale administration does an excellent job of drilling into students the language of consent. In mandatory gatherings with our deans, meetings with our freshman counselors and “froyo workshops” with the Communication and Consent Educators, we are reminded that we are unable to give consent if we are incapacitated due to drugs or alcohol.

But if we were to actually stop for a moment and reflect, we would realize this is a ridiculously low bar.

One clear problem is the ambiguity of the word “incapacitated.” This can mean anything from a few legal “drinks” to non-responsiveness.

If two people get drunk and have sex, they could both conceivably be accused of rape.

It is this definition of consent that in part gives rise to President Obama’s preposterous statistic that “one in five women on college campuses has been sexually

assaulted.” This misleading statistic is based on a 2007 survey that looked at only two college campuses, relied on a low response rate and categorized as rape any “intimate encounters while intoxicated.”

This new piece of legislation takes it to a new level. Did you kiss your date goodnight without obtaining verbal consent? That’s assault. Did you have sex with your significant other without explicitly asking for permission every step along the way? Seems that's rape.

The partisan proponents of the California bill aren’t even trying to hide its preposterous implications.

Well-known liberal columnist Ezra Klein writes, “the ‘Yes Means Yes’ Law is terrible, but necessary” and that the law “needs to create a world where men are afraid.” With this law, California legislators have effectively declared war on the presumption of innocence put forward in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Whereas previously, sex was consensual unless one party explicitly protested, this new law posits that any romantic interaction is nonconsensual unless explicit verbal consent is provided.

Worst of all, SB 967 fails to address the real sources of rape and sexual assault in modern American society. As we learned in our “froyo workshops,” we actually don’t struggle to understand others’ body language, coded diction or tone. What do we struggle with, then? We struggle to care.

We struggle to treat others with the respect they deserve. Instead, we see others as objects — relegating them to tools we use to achieve our own selfish ends.

We know what constitutes an appropriate sexual interaction — people ought to be treated as ends in themselves, rather than as means for personal gain. California’s new "affirmative consent" policy implies that the only requirement for respectful sexual action is a verbal green light. It promotes a cheap façade of choice, rather than forcing students to rethink the motives that drive their sexual interactions.

This ridiculous requirement of explicit, verbal consent lumps together the experiences of those who are forcibly raped with those who have drunk sex or those who simply have sex without awkwardly verbally consenting every couple minutes. It trivializes the experiences of victims of rape and sexual assault. We need to address this epidemic, but yes-means-yes legislation isn’t the solution.

AMALIA HALIKIAS is a senior in Silliman College. Contact her at amalia.halikias@yale.edu .

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Ebola expert talks epidemic severity

BY AMANDA MEI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER People should not underestimate the severity of the current Ebola epidemic in West Africa, said Jamie Childs, senior research scientist and School of Public Health professor, at a Monday evening lecture entitled “Ebola Past and Present.”

During the talk, which was the second in a three-part series of events foused on Ebola education, outreach and fundraising, Childs addressed an audience of roughly 100 students at the School of Medicine. His talk, which focused on the devastating impact of Ebola on West African people and nations, included topics such as disease symptoms, transmission and treatments.

Childs emphasized the difficulties of containing and treating the disease, as well as how current and past Ebola policies have been inadequate. The lecture was planned by the Yale Ebola Task Force under public health professor and Branford College Master Elizabeth Bradley and was part of the Global Health Seminar, a weekly elective course for students in the health professions.

“As far as I know, the number of cases could double in a couple of weeks,” Childs said.

Although Ebola has not had as much of an impact as other diseases like HIV/AIDS or malaria, the current Ebola epidemic ravaging Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone is much larger than any other Ebola outbreak in the past.

Childs said that due to underreporting, official estimates may be significantly smaller than the actual number of those affected.

There could be as many as 2.5 times the number of cases as previously thought, he added.

Childs, who specializes in diseases that are transmitted from animals to humans, of which Ebola is one, also said the estimated mortality rate for the disease may be closer to 70 percent than 50 percent. Before causing death by shock or organ failure, Ebola typically results in fever, diarrhea, vomiting and bleeding.

The Ebola virus is mutating at a rapid rate because every transmission of the virus provides an opportunity for evolution, Childs said. The first case of Ebola in the current outbreak probably resulted from the transmission of the virus between a wild bat and a two-year-old Guinean child.

Since then, the disease has spread between humans through bodily fluids, but is unlikely to gain the ability to transmit more easily.

“Ebola is not evolved to be transmitted by [an airborne] route,” Childs said.

So far, an effective treatment for the disease has eluded researchers and health officials, Childs said, though he mentioned that targeting proteins on the surface of the virus with drugs could be a possible treatment. He added that two Ebola vaccines are currently being developed.

Until a treatment is found, Childs said the negative human and economic costs of the Ebola

outbreak may be extensive. Even tracing up to 80 percent of an Ebola patient’s previous contacts may not be able to prevent 100,000 more cases, he said, noting that current healthcare methods do not even reach the 80 percent threshold.

Childs also predicted that the economic burden on Africa would be “severe and ongoing.” Ebola poses a $33 billion threat to West Africa, and as human costs continue to grow, the GDP of Liberia may fall 12 percent in the next year, according to one estimate.

The region’s lagging healthcare infrastructure could exacerbate the economic situation, Childs added.

Before coming to Yale in 2004, Childs worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and spent four weeks in Kikwit, Zaire — now part of the Democratic Republic of Congo — to study an outbreak of Ebola. He described the situation as tragic — those affected did not have the facilities or professional expertise to deal with the disease.

Rebecca Wener SPH ’18 said she attended the lecture because of the topic’s relevance. She said she was struck by Childs’ description of the lack of political efficacy in efforts to combat Ebola.

Kylia Goodner GRD ’17, who studies genetics, agreed, noting that the fact that an 80 percent successful tracing effort would still not be enough to quell the disease’s spread is frightening.

Childs’ talk came at a time when concerns about Ebola are rising in the U.S. Last Friday, after a positive diagnosis of Ebola in one New York City doctor, Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey mandated 21-day quarantines for health workers returning from West Africa. The governors have since curtailed their policies in response to criticism — including from the White House — that such steps are unnecessary and would hamper efforts to aid West Africa, where 4,900 people have died of the disease since February.

Childs criticized the quarantine measures, noting that keeping patients in expensive medical facilities for 21 days and away from work may not be beneficial.

“Can you imagine the cost?” he asked. “[The quarantines] may inadvertently cause much more damage than good.”

Gov. Dannel Malloy also ordered a quarantine of travelers from West Africa earlier this month after declaring a public health emergency. Currently, nine people are quarantined: a family of six in West Haven, two students at Yale and an individual who some news reports have identified as a third Yale student.

The Yale administration has updated its travel policies to comply with state and CDC protocol, although undergraduates have been banned from receiving funding for travel to West Africa since mid-September.

Contact AMANDA MEI at amanda.mei@yale.edu .

Cultural center review ahead

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Next week, Yale’s four cultural centers will enter a process of review by the faculty and administration. Although administrators say they will discuss implementing substantial changes, they have assured students that these shifts will not threaten the existence or basic structure of the centers.

The first discussion to launch this review process will be held on Tuesday, and will involve students in the discussion of the vision and role of the cultural centers. Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry and University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews will host of the discussion series that will continue throughout the year.

“For many of you, the centers are homes away from home,” Holloway said in an email addressed to students associated with the four cultural centers.

“We also understand the importance of the centers in our community; our goal is to preserve this importance just as we ask how the centers can carry out the larger mission of the University.”

Holloway said he invites students to join in a Universitywide reflection on the vision and role of the centers. He also offered a way for students to anonymously submit opinions to add to the discussion. This reflection and consultation will continue throughout the academic year, resulting in a dayand-a-half long conference in the spring to be coordinated by University Provost Benjamin Polak.

Gentry said discussions like this within the administration are not new, and that they have served as a positive outlet for discussion and change in the past.

“It’s a way to look at what we’re doing and find ways to improve,” he said. “We have two new colleges coming — we want to know how that looks, and how we’re going be able to support more students in all of our areas, not just the cultural centers.”

Gentry added that part of the reason for these discussions is the need to hire two new cultural center directors. The Native American Cultural Center and La Casa Cultural Cen-

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The four cultural centers will begin a process of review by the faculty and administrators. ter currently have interim directors that will soon need to be replaced. Assistant Dean of Yale College and Interim Director of La Casa Amanda Hernandez said it was important for the University to know what to look for in hiring and projecting these visions with the new deans.

Yale fundamentally understands and appreciates the role of the cultural centers.

AMANDA HERNANDEZ Interim dean, La Casa Hernandez said students should not worry about the centers drastically changing or disappearing.

“Yale fundamentally understands and appreciates the role of the cultural centers on campus,” she said.

The consultation process will involve collaboration between Yale administration and cultural center directors, Gentry added.

Head coordinators of the

Asian American Cultural Center Hiral Doshi ’17 and Jessica Liang ’17 said they are excited to break down preconceptions about the cultural centers through these discussions, particularly the view that the centers only cater to students who identify with their respective cultures.

“With over 40 years of history, the houses are no longer a minority haven, but a wonderful venue for anyone and everyone who’d like to steep themselves in the worlds we have available to us on campus.” Liang said.

The review of the cultural centers comes in light of two major reunions in the AfroAmerican Cultural Center and the Asian American Cultural Center, large events which drew numerous alumni of these centers to campus. Hernandez said that alumni are very involved in these discussions because of the strong sense of community that these centers evoke and allow.

Alejandro Rojas ’18 said the community created by the cultural centers can help alleviate stress, helping students connect to others with similar backgrounds through events that focus on cultural heritage. He said he hopes that these con-

versations allow for the cultural houses to integrate more intercultural activities that will help generate awareness and dialogue among students of different backgrounds.

Dalton Carr ’15, a staff member at the Native American Cultural Center, said that while he hopes the discussions will inspire positive conversation on campus, he feels there are still concerns that need to be addressed.

“The cultural houses act not only as a crutch and a second home for students, but as a conduit for sharing valuable aspects of our respective cultures. The administration can better support our goals through appropriate funding and continued backing of cultural initiatives,” he said.

The Native American Cultural Center, the newest of the four centers, was established in 1993 and established its own house on campus last year.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

Lawyer exhorts fight against climate change

BY HANNAH YANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER When asked where he got the motivation to persist in his fight against climate change, former School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Dean Gus Speth ’64 LAW ’69 compared himself to Sisyphys — the mythical Greek king condemned to an eternity of rolling a boulder uphill and watching it roll back down.

He used this metaphor to tell budding activists in the audience that the most important thing is to have a cause they are dedicated to. Speth — who spoke to about 20 students at a Branford College Master’s Tea Monday — has served as administrator of the U.N. Development program, chairman for the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality and cofounder of the Natural Resources Defense Council. At the tea, he discussed the challenges facing the fight for environmental justice and the measures he believes should be implemented to prevent climate change — ideas that he said are featured in his upcoming memoir “Angels by the River.”

Although he is hopeful for the future, Speth said he acknowledges that institutional responses to address climate change will be slow. When he worked for the Carter administration in 1980, the government already knew enough about climate change to know the problem was serious, he said.

“Are we going to have to be hit way too hard before we take it seriously? I’m afraid so,” he said.

“But the important thing is to be crisis-ready — to have things moving already and to have examples of success. Then, when

people finally look for solutions, they’ll find them.”

Though Speth said he has made considerable strides in the movement to stop climate change, through his work with the NRDC and the U.N., he believes that collective efforts have not been drastic enough.

The political economy in America is not serving the interests of human beings and the environment. He said he hopes markets will become less important in daily life and that there will be a new generation of corporations that support worker-owned companies, public-private hybrids and social enterprises. Only then, he said, will power leave the hands of large fossil fuel corporations, allowing the planet to recover from carbon emissions.

Speth also said he is deeply disappointed in the University’s refusal to divest from fossil fuel corporations earlier this year.

Stanford University, he said, set a much better example by divesting from coal companies. Universities have the opportunity, and responsibility, to make the decision to dissociate from the practice of investing in fossil fuels, he added.

As part of a discussion of his memoir, Speth also talked about his upbringing in a segregated Southern town, which exposed him to racial tensions early on in life. During his years as an undergraduate at Yale, Speth said, he became passionate about fighting racial inequality — which inspired him to pursue a career in social activism. Speth said he eventually transitioned from racial activism to environmentalism.

To some degree, he said, the

civil rights movement parallels the battle for environmental justice.

While it is now clear to the American public that racism is a great crime, not as many people feel directly affected by climate change, he said. This is a problem, Speth added, because the situation is rapidly changing.

“The grievance issue in the civil rights movement was easy to identify,” he said, “Sadly, the victimization of people by climate change is increasing. I think we’re going to see far more of that as time goes on.”

Audience members interviewed said they largely agree

with Speth’s opinions.

Tristan Glowa ’18 said Speth provided a motivating example for people passionate about environmental justice.

“I loved it,” Glowa said. “It’s easy to get disheartened when trying to change large institutions, and it’s good to remember that we have a voice in the fight.”

Riddima Yadav ’18 said she was glad to meet someone who has taken such a strong stance on these social issues.

The NRDC has over 1.4 million members.

Contact HANNAH YANG at hannah.yang@yale.edu .

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“Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves.�

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Student representation on BOE progresses BOARD OF ED FROM PAGE 1 government, who should make the decision,� he said.

He added that grade requirements might disqualify students who have trouble in school but are good candidates nonetheless.

Ward 10 Alder Anna Festa expressed similar sentiments. “Do we, at this point, have any requirements for presidential candidates besides their age?� she asked in an interview after the meeting.

It’s the voter that decides.

I win by showing I’m able to do the job.

SALVATORE DECOLA Ward 18 Alder DeCola and Festa both said that students should be left to decide amongst themselves who best represents them — all high school students who attend New Haven Public Schools are eligible to vote. “It’s the voter that decides,�

DeCola said. “I win by showing I’m able to do the job.�

Students have so far sided with DeCola, according to Susan Weisselberg, the chief of wraparound services for New Haven Public Schools. During a

meeting of the City-Wide High School Student Cabinet with Superintendent Garth Harries ’95 last week, the students voted that a GPA requirement should not exist.

Festa, DeCola and Weisselberg all expressed hope that including student representatives on the board will increase student involvement. “We talk about student engagement as being at the core of our agenda,� Weisselberg said, adding that the student representatives will be a valuable component of the Board of Education’s collaborative, discussion-based decision-making process.

Festa also said that the student representatives would ensure that the entire student body’s voices are heard. She said the ideal representative would be capable of representing all students and be able to influence the voting members on the Board.

The remainder of last night’s meeting focused on how the city will elect the two new voting members to the Board. For electoral purposes, the city will be broken into two districts, each consisting of 15 wards. The alders discussed how to divide the city optimally while considering demographics.

Some alders expressed concern that dividing the city into northern and southern districts, as the ordinance proposed,

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The Joint Aldermanic Affairs/Education Committee voted on ordinances about the selection process for future members on the Board of Ed. unfairly breaks up otherwise unified neighborhoods. Ward 27 Alder Richard Furlow said he feared that the suggested electoral map fractures Westville, with Wards 24 and 25 placed in District 1 and Ward 27 placed in District 2.

Ward 16 Alder Michelle Perez echoed Furlow’s concerns. She

opposed the decision to move Ward 16 into District 2, saying that it makes little sense to separate central Fair Haven from its eastern and western counterparts.

Though Perez was not alone in disagreeing with the district divisions, she was the only one to ultimately vote against the

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Fair aims to help students with disabilities

BY MARTHA LONGLEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Tables with colorful flags and dishes of candy lined the circular perimeter of the cafeteria at Hill Regional Career High School last night. There, parents, teachers and local advocates convened for the annual New Haven Public Schools Parent Resource Fair.

New Haven Public Schools, the Department of Developmental Services and the Parent Partnership Council all collaborated to host the event. According to organizers, the fair aimed to provide parents of disabled children with the resources they need to get involved in their children’s education, extracurricular activities and post-educational vocations.

“The goal of the fair is to get parents more involved in the decisions concerning their children’s education and to bring awareness to the resources available to parents so that those decisions are well-informed,” said Marilyn Calderón, executive director of Connecticut Parent Power, an organization that encourages parents to devote more attention to their children’s education.

On the perimeter of the cafeteria, different organizations set up tables and posters to introduce parents to a wide range of potential extracurricular activities for their children, including camps, music and after-

school programs, in addition to programs focused more on early childhood development and life after high school.

Eric Jones, who oversees the New Haven area for the Bureau of Education and Services for the Blind, said that, while it can be easy for parents to get information about special education during school, some of the most important years are the transition from school to work. He added that studies have shown that most disabled children who go straight from school to work stay out of the criminal justice system.

Jenna Lewis, a special-education graduate from the Gengras Center in West Hartford, attended the event, manning a table about self-advocation, whereby disabled students learn skills to advocate for themselves. She said her role is to help people with disabilities vote, attend schools and colleges, speak publicly and navigate transportation safely.

Lewis said she believes she can effectively advocate for the specialeducation programs as a graduate herself. She added that she believes she contributes a lot to a system in which decisions were once made only by people studying intellectual disabilities, not people who actually lived with them.

Parents Colette and Thomas Jagoda said they were pleased with the abundance of vendors, adding that

at similar events in the past, there have sometimes been only five vendors, and information showing where to access resources did not reach the parents. “[This event] had enough information so that you can educate yourself and have more of a positive influence on your child’s life,” said Colette Jagoda.

Both of them added that they wished that more parents had attended.

Kathy Abate, who works for the Board of Education and serves as supervisor of special education and social work, said that she was happy with the turnout but hopes to increase parent involvement at future events.

Currently, the organization publicizes the events by sending flyers home with students, emailing parents and posting it on the NHPS and DDS websites. They plan to increase advertising next year, according to Abate.

According to Special Education Advisor, a website with information on special education rights and laws, under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act — which requires that schools provide individualized programs for students with disabilities — the number of children and students served has increased 81 percent since 1977.

Contact MARTHA LONGLEY at martha.longley@yale.edu .

Gotay talks changes in journalism

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FDA head examines Ebola

BY TRESA JOSEPH AND DAVID SHIMER CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS

BY JOEY YE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Changes in modern technology have dramatically shifted the news landscape, according to journalist Benjamin Torres Gotay.

Gotay, the deputy editor and columnist for “El Nuevo Día,” Puerto Rico’s leading newspaper, said people live in an environment where a constant stream of information can be accessed within seconds. Speaking before a small crowd at La Casa Cultural on Monday night, he emphasized how social media allows more people to receive and distribute news. In the past, he added, only a newspaper and occasional radio broadcast offered a sense of the world.

“We live in an era of noise from the moment we wake up to the moment we close our eyes to get a good night’s rest,” he said. “Things are radically different now as you may all know. Anyone with a Facebook or Twitter account can become a news outlet.”

Gotay said these changes pose challenges to journalists because it forces reporters to ensure the accuracy of any information they encounter online. He added that modern technology has compelled newspapers to be more careful of what they publish because a situation could change a minute after it is reported.

As the deputy editor of “El Nuevo Día,” Gotay said the greatest difficulty lies in distinguishing fact from fiction while also convincing his audience that the paper’s information is accurate.

Gotay said he often waits before reporting on breaking news in order to confirm that he has the correct informa-

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Benjamin Torres Gotay, the deputy editor and columnist for a Puerto Rican news source, discussed changes in online news. tion.

“I follow the principle which many journalists follow: It’s not the first to say it, but who says it better,” he said.

“The important thing is not being the first to say it, but to say it right. That is my challenge every day.”

Even though “El Nuevo Día” is one of the only major news sources in Puerto Rico, Gotay said he understands that different voices and approaches are necessary to help foster reliable and trustworthy news.

According to Gotay, advertisements also pose a threat to newspapers. If a newspaper only has a few ads, any one advertiser holds leverage the publication. But with many ads, “no one person can hold the paper hostage,” he said.

Despite changes in technology, Gotay said he believes the most important principles of journalism have remained

the same. He said his role is to be an explainer and an interpreter. He admitted that although he may not always be right, he tries to stay honest.

Audience members interviewed applauded Gotay’s commitment to journalistic integrity.

Cell biology professor Daniel Colon-Ramos said he thought it was great for students to hear Gotay speak about his development as a journalist.

“It’s refreshing to know that he values integrity so much,” said Eddie Ortiz Nieves ’16, a student recruitment coordinator at La Casa. “To hear from someone with so much power and influence that he focuses on honesty and clarity is very comforting.”

Gotay first began reporting in 1993.

Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

Finding a balance between longterm planning and impromptu decision-making is crucial to success, said Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration Margaret Hamburg at a Monday afternoon Master’s Tea in the Davenport Common Room.

Roughly 45 students gathered to hear Hamburg’s thoughts on the importance of the FDA, balancing career with family and the FDA’s role in quelling the Ebola epidemic.

The FDA, which falls under the authority of the Department of Health and Human Services, is responsible for assuring the safety and quality of all drugs, vaccinations, blood supplies and many food products. In Hamburg’s words, the Administration is charged with protecting the health of the American public.

While it was initially conceived as a national organization, the FDA has had to adjust to the fact that a large portion of the food and drugs that Americans consume today come from a worldwide market, Hamburg said.

“About 50 percent of fruit, 85 percent of seafood, 40 percent of finished drugs and — the number that astounds me the most — 80 percent of active pharmaceutical ingredients are being manufactured in other countries,” she said.

“That means we have to have a global presence.”

While discussing her career path, Hamburg emphasized the need to be simultaneously prepared and malleable.

Quoting Louis Pasteur, who created the first vaccine, Hamburg said that “chance favors the prepared mind.” But she also noted the need to be open-minded and willing to seize opportunities as they come along.

“I have come to realize that it is dangerous to lock in too much with a particular career path,” she

said. “Sometimes you have to take a chance.”

Hamburg took such a chance in 1993 after the bombing of the World Trade Center: Rather than continue to pursue the path medical school had placed her on, Hamburg began studying biological terrorism. Her background in the field ultimately helped her secure her position as FDA Commissioner, said Davenport Master Richard Schottenfeld.

Our job is to support the overall medical care and public health response [to the Ebola outbreak].

MARGARET HAMBURG Commissioner, FDA

Hamburg added that many of her career choices, including her position as the New York City Health Commissioner and her current position, were not necessarily part of her intended career path.

“I ended up in a role that in a million years I would never have expected,” she said. “I don’t see myself as a particularly courageous person, yet I have taken on jobs that have put me at the epicenter of controversy, of challenging decisions, in the spotlight with enormous responsibilities.”

Students attending were particularly curious to understand the FDA’s role in the current Ebola epidemic. Of the questions asked during the question and answer portion of the talk, half were about Ebola.

Hamburg said that the FDA has yet to receive major media attention regarding its role in response to the outbreak, although the FDA has played a major part.

“Our job is to support the overall medical care and public health response,” she said, adding that the role includes making experimental diagnostic drugs and vaccines available.

In speaking about the history of the epidemic, Hamburg said that Ebola research used to be motivated not by fears of a natural epidemic, but by what she described as warranted fears of a potential terrorist attack.

She recalled a Japanese terrorist group from the mid-1990s releasing Sarin gas in the Tokyo subway. Afterward, she said, members of the group went to East Africa during an Ebola outbreak and attempted to harvest the virus, with the intention of using it as a biological weapon.

Many students interviewed found Hamburg’s stories and advice particularly engaging because of their relevance to current events.

“It was so interesting to hear from someone who is at the forefront of decision making, vaccination research and addressing the disease,” Carolyn McGuire ’17 said.

Others, like Esteban Elizondo ’18, simply wanted to take advantage of an opportunity to learn more about the FDA Chief of Medical Oncology at the Yale Cancer Center Roy Herbst, who played a large role in bringing Hamburg to Yale, was impressed with what Hamburg had to say.

“She is a very innovative individual managing a very large agency,” he said. “I was impressed with how she balances that with commitments like her family.”

Hamburg’s mother, Beatrix Hamburg ’48, was the first African-American woman to graduate from the Yale School of Medicine.

Contact TRESA JOSEPH at tresa.joseph@yale.edu and DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

Pro-gun activists rally in Hartford

BY SARA SEYMOUR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER With just over a week to go until voters head to the polls, gun activists rallied in Hartford yesterday, encouraging their supporters to vote next Tuesday.

The activists are working to unseat Gov. Dannel Malloy, who signed into law one of the most restrictive gun laws in the country following the Dec. 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

The Connecticut Citizens Defense League hosted the conference, where Second Amendment activists — Timothy Knight from Colorado and Sean Maloney from Ohio — spoke in favor of gun rights. Although

neither speaker disclosed their political affiliation, the CCDL, which is a non-partisan organization that works to protect Second Amendment rights, has endorsed Republican Tom Foley for governor.

“We endorsed [Foley] and that’s because we’re comfortable that he’s not going to sign anything that will infringe our rights further,” said Scott Wilson, the president of the CCDL. The press conference is part of a two-day tour including radio talks and visits to firearms retailers in an effort to encourage gun enthusiasts to vote in the upcoming gubernatorial election.

The state’s expanded gun control law requires that all Con-

necticut residents go through a background check before purchasing a gun. It also requires ammunition purchasers to have special permits and eligibility certificates as well as a valid form of identification, in addition to limiting detachable magazines to no more than 10 rounds.

Lenny Benedetto, vice president of the CCDL, said that unless a Republican wins the election, residents will continue to have their Second Amendment rights infringed upon.

“I already know that if the state of Connecticut keeps going the way it goes, it will empower the liberals who are the gun grabbers to continue,” Benedetto said. “They will keep trying to grab pieces of our rights.”

Both speakers at yesterday’s press conference are known for their efforts to preserve gun rights across the nation.

Knight led the recall of two Colorado state senators, John Morse and Angela Giron, after they supported more stringent gun control laws last year in response to the Aurora, Colorado, shooting. Maloney, a leader at the Buckeye Firearms Association, said that he got involved with the Colorado recall because he could not stand by and watch passively as constitutional rights were curtailed.

Knight mentioned in an interview after the press conference that gun control is issue of national importance.

“What needs to happen is that

politicians need to start listening to their constituents,” Knight said.

A blog post on the CCDL website yesterday stressed that Foley is the right choice for governor because unlike unaffiliated candidate Joe Visconti, Foley understands what measures he can reasonably take as governor.

Both Knight and Maloney stressed that they are in Connecticut simply to motivate people to exercise their right to vote, not to support a specific candidate.

“I’m not here to endorse the candidate one way or another.

I’m just here to get like minded people to get out and vote and make a difference,” Knight said.

Knight also pointed out that

often people do not vote, but then complain about decisions made by the government. He said that this contributed to why he was speaking at the rally yesterday.

Both Knight and Maloney are also running to serve on the Board of Directors of the National Rifle Association.

“Whether I’m on the board or not, I’m never going to stop my fight for freedom,” Maloney said.

Foley’s campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment on his position about gun control.

The CCDL has 16,000 members.

Contact SARA SEYMOUR at sara.seymour@yale.edu .

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“The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.” BARACK OBAMA PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

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popular in the state. According to a Quinnipiac poll conducted this March, the president had an approval rating of 45 percent, but was still overwhelmingly popular among Democrats with 80 percent of registered Democrats approving of his performance.

In addition to affecting who voters will favor, Obama’s visit could also impact voter turnout overall, said Rachel Miller ’15, the co-president of Yale’s chapter of the Roosevelt Institute — a national progressive think-tank for college students. She said that the president’s visit will likely inspire more Connecticut residents to vote next Tuesday, though she was unsure of how the visit would impact Malloy’s support overall.

Members of the Yale College Democrats said that instead of actually attending the president’s rally on Sunday, they will instead focus their efforts on encouraging voters to go out and vote for Malloy. Dems communications director Lily Sawyer-Kaplan ’17, however, said some members plan on attending the rally with the first lady on Thursday.

The president plans to rally in five other states this week including Michigan, Wisconsin, Maine, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania.

OBAMA FROM PAGE 1 Patrick Scully, a Democrat who served as Mayor Toni Harp’s communications director during her campaign last year.

With his approval rating hovering just above 40 percent in the latest Gallup survey, Obama has been far from the first choice for many Democrats caught in tight races and looking for a campaigning partner. With Democrats struggling to retain control of the Senate, some party members have suggested that the president’s low approval ratings could damage their prospects for victory.

[The president’s endorsement] definitely won’t hurt [Malloy].

PATRICK SCULLY Toni Harp’s former communications director But New Haven Democrats and Republicans alike said that the president’s visit would not necessarily hurt Malloy’s prospects for re-election.

Scully said that the president’s endorsement “definitely won’t hurt” Malloy.

Amalia Halikias ’15, a member of the Yale College Republicans, agreed with Scully, noting that Obama is still relatively

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ily rely on the SAF, Marano said.

In deciding how to allocate funds for the concert, the committee first determines non-negotiable costs, like production or security, YCC events director Jaime Halberstam ’16 said. Money that is leftover — typically half of the original budget — is spent on hiring performers, she said.

Some peer institutions charge an admission fee to raise money for their university-wide concerts. At the University of Pennsylvania, students pay $35 for admission to spring fling, and

times as large as Yale’s, said Spring Fling Committee Chair Tom Marano ’16.

While the SAF makes up the majority of funding for Spring Fling, the president’s office also allocates $40,000 to the event, and the YCC looks for outside sponsorship, Herbert said. Last year’s Spring Fling budget was $185,000, according to the YCC’s website.

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their non-Penn guests pay $70, said Lea Nowack, a sophomore at the school.

Last year, with David Guetta as headliner, some students were deterred by the $35 cost, but many were willing to pay because Guetta is such a high-profile artist, Nowack added.

Marano said the YCC might consider charging non-Yale attendees a fee but has never considered charging Yale students beyond the SAF. To do so would be “double charging,” he said.

“The concert always has been and always will be free to Yale students,” Halberstam said.

Still, eight out of 12 students interviewed said they would not mind paying a little more money, either through the SAF or through an admissions fee, to secure a bigger name artist.

Greg Suralik ’17 said he would be willing to pay up to $150 for a SAF, adding that more money would always bring about improvements in the concert.

“We’ve managed to do well with what we have, but we have a great space and could attract great performers with our University’s name,” he said. “I’d definitely be willing to pay more. It could go to Spring Fling itself, better security, cleaning up. A lot of things improve when you just put a little money in.”

While the YCC’s budget for Spring Fling is not expected to change much this year, the proposal to increase the SAF is still up in the air, Herbert said, adding that student body support for the measure is strong. Discussion about the proposal is moving through the administrative channels, said Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry.

The YCC is optimistic that the SAF will be increased, Herbert said, and sees it a necessary step to increase the quality of Spring Fling.

“The questions [when it comes to Spring Fling budgeting] are always, is it doable? And are we going to be putting on a first-class event?” Herbert said.

“Because those are two very different things.”

The average Ivy League SAF is $160.

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“I’m not sure it is the best practice in public health policy,” Genecin said.

Genecin added that the administration was unaware that Boyko would come forth with his identity, but that he was glad Boyko was healthy.

Still, Boyko said the quaratine has been “very isolating,” adding that he cannot have visitors, see his family or friends or exercise.

A Monday New York Times article highlighted public criticism — including from the White House and the United Nations Secretary General — towards New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for hastily instituting mandatory 21-day quarantines for travelers who had direct contact with Ebola patients. Critics of the policy, which was outlined on Friday, claimed that the governors were motivated by politics rather than science.

Dean of the School of Medicine Robert Alpern said he was not aware of Boyko’s identity and that he had only become involved in the case when Boyko was admitted to YNHH. Alpern added that HIPAA laws prevented him from learning Boyko’s name.

“The hospital couldn’t tell me his name,” Alpern said. “The only way I could have known his name is if someone at Yale told me.”

Dean of the School of Public Health Paul Cleary declined to comment on Boyko’s public appearance.

In a public letter released

on Monday and addressed to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Cleary opposed the New York state quarantines, along with over 100 other AIDS activists.

The letter deemed the New York state policy unacceptable and not supported by scientific evidence.

Cleary said he signed the letter because he thinks certain states are addressing the virus in a counterproductive way. Cleary added, however, that this letter referred strictly to New York state policy.

Branford Master and public health professor Elizabeth Bradley said she also did not know Boyko was going to share his identity, though she did know that he was one of the two students under quarantine. Bradley said Boyko had contacted her via Skype to share his experience since returning from Liberia.

In the past, Boyko has traveled to Africa and elsewhere with Cornell’s Village Dog Genetic Diversity Project, which samples dog genes for testing in order to identify and treat various human diseases.

On Boyko’s LinkedIn, he specifies that his area of study focuses on the role of domestic animals, especially dogs and pigs, in the spread of human intestinal parasites in subSaharan Africa.

The second and final Ebola test run on Boyko by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention came back negative on Oct. 17.

Contact STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu and RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .

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English professor James T. Engell emphasizes the necessity of reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions at a Harvard Faculty for Divestment presentation in Fong Auditorium on Sunday.

BY STEVEN WATROS Several members of Harvard Faculty for Divestment discussed the science behind climate change on Sunday evening and continued to urge Harvard officials to divest Harvard’s endowment from fossil fuel companies, arguing that doing so would galvanize “political will” needed to change energy production and consumption.

Presenter Stephen A. Marglin, an economics professor, said that Harvard’s divestiture would not cause fossil fuel companies to collapse but could set an example

for other institutions t h a t might be waiting to follow H a r va rd ’s HARVARD lead.

This, he and the other presenters said, could provoke civil action and political response to match the economic and political forces of fossil fuel companies.

Marglin was joined in presenting by chemistry professor James

G. Anderson and English professor James T. Engell. The three are among the 164 signatories of an open letter published last spring and addressed to Harvard President Drew G. Faust and members of the Harvard Corporation, calling on them to divest from fossil fuels.

In subsequent correspondence, Faust has restated that Harvard will not divest, arguing that such a move would undesirably politicize the endowment and that Harvard can best address climate change by promoting research and education.

Chemistry professor James G.

Anderson describes the effects of climate instability at a Harvard Faculty for Divestment presentation in Fong Auditorium on Sunday.

At Sunday’s event in Fong Auditorium, Engell addressed this point, saying that fossil fuel companies propagate “anti-science” and “misinformation” about climate change, often attempting to discredit the research done in higher education.

Anderson presented first, opening by commending Divest Harvard students who held a fast last week to raise awareness

for their cause. About 160 individuals reportedly signed up for Divest Harvard’s fast last week, with each participant choosing how long to fast, up to 72 hours.

“I haven’t seen a reaction with this intensity since the Vietnam War,” Anderson said.

Yet, during the question and answer period, journalist and divestment activist Wen Stephenson said that the movement is not widespread enough, as Harvard’s campus seems to have “a resistance — deep-seated — to resistance.”

One of principal authors of the Faculty for Divestment letter

assistant professor of psychiatry James M. Recht, although not presenting at the event, agreed with Stephenson.

“What I admire about what the students are doing is their courage, their rebelliousness, and I just think we need more of it,” Recht said.

Stephenson wrote an open letter to Faust last week, reporting that he had been asked to leave an alumni event in Sanders Theatre last spring after he and two fellow alumni held a banner that said “Harvard Alumni for Divestment” while Faust was speaking.

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THE DARTMOUTH

Skorton appoints interim provost

Half marathon benefits children’s hospital

BY ZOE FERGUSON Prof. Harry Katz, the Kenneth F. Kahn Dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, was appointed by President David Skorton Friday as interim provost of the University. Katz will assume his new position Nov. 14, when current Provost Kent Fuchs steps down to prepare for his new role as president of the University of Florida.

In an interview with The Sun, Skorton said he selected Katz as interim provost due to his “excellent” leadership and management skills.

“I believe that Katz, with whom I have worked for over eight years, has demonstrated that he has really good leadership skills and management skills,” Skorton said.

Skorton also said that Katz has shown his competence in handling complex budgets and a large college with thousands of students, faculty and staff, including ILR extension faculty members.

“He has this history of strong management and strong leadership,” Skorton said. “He’s a very experienced manager in handling complexity. He has this good vision of how to make an excellent university even better.”

Katz was part of the search committee that led to the appointment of Fuchs as provost in 2009, an experience that Skorton said required Katz to “think very carefully” about the qualities a provost should have.

Katz said he was “honored” to be appointed interim provost and looks forward to addressing the challenges inherent in taking on a leadership role in the University.

To tackle these challenges facing the University, Katz said he hopes to work more closely with President Skorton in his role as interim provost.

“It’s a challenging time,” Katz said.

“This is a great university. The fundamental task of a provost at Cornell is continuing and strengthening our strong traCORNELL dition of excellence and research teaching and outreach. I’m going to try to find ways to do that in my role as an interim [provost].”

In a press release on Friday, Skorton said he would work closely with Katz and president-elect Elizabeth Garrett to “advance [Cornell’s] academic priorities.”

These priorities for the future — which include making use of educational technology for all students, increasing diversity on Cornell’s campus and fulfilling Cornell’s land grant commitment — mostly relate to improving the quality and accessibility of a full Cornell education, according to Skorton.

Skorton added that one challenge facing the University is that of “assessing and demonstrating to the public the value of higher education.”

“The broader liberal arts education hopefully leads all of us to be better and more critical thinkers and to understand the world around us and understand ourselves more,” Skorton said. “I think all that comes from a liberal arts education.”

Additionally, Katz and Skorton both emphasized the importance of effectively addressing financial constraints that the University faces.

“We face particular challenges at this moment in that we have budget challenges,” Katz said. “Overall, the introduction of the budget model has gone relatively smoothly, but there are still some wrinkles that need to be worked out.”

BY NOAH GOLDSTEIN Superheroes came out flying on Sunday, or so it appeared as over 3,500 people, many in colorful costumes, participated the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hero half marathon and Ripcord 5K. As of press time, the hospital had raised more than $697,000.

As part of the program, a number of Greek houses compete to try to raise the most money.

Philanthropic All American Rush, an organization run by Dartmouth students, has partnered with the CHaD Hero event since 2012, boosting revenue and helping organize Greek houses, non-profit Positive Tracks founder Nini Meyer said.

For every dollar Greek houses raise, Positive Tracks contributes

the same amount, PAAR cop re s i d e n t So p h i a Johnston s a i d . So far, Greek h o u se s r a i s e d DARTMOUTH more than $22,000.

At the end of the term, Greek organizations will submit participant numbers and amount raised, with the winners receiving monetary prizes. Last year, they raised around $48,900 by the late November deadline, doubled by Positive Tracks to around $97,800. This marked an increase on the approximately $67,600 total

in 2012.

Johnston said she hoped to see an increase in both participation and amount raised, noting that she would like the money to go toward one concrete initiative, such as a program or a room in the hospital.

“A key part of our mission statement is showing that there is a strong philanthropic element in the Greek system,” Johnston said.

So far, Alpha Delta fraternity has raised over $10,000, and Psi Upsilon fraternity raised at least $14,000.

Other participating Greek organizations included Alpha Xi Delta sorority, with $470; Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity, with $1,011; Kappa Delta sorority, with $825; Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority, with $915; Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority with $3,480; Zeta Psi fraternity, with $90.

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The weekend event brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars for Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth.

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SPORTS

“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.” ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER ACTOR AND FORMER GOVERNOR

Yale ties Penn 1–1 W. SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 create a new streak by scoring against Penn. Once again, Gavin made that a reality for the Elis.

“It’s been nice that I’ve been able to contribute in the past few games,” Gavin said. “I had been unlucky scoring in our out-ofleague games, so it’s nice to hit the back of the net in a few of the games that matter.”

The game started without a lot of action, other than a save by goaltender Elise Wilcox ’15 in the 20th minute. There were only three shots in the first 30 minutes, one by Yale’s Paula Hagopian ’16 and two by Penn.

After an offside call and a foul

by Penn, Quaker forward Juliana Provini took advantage of a pass to score the first goal of the game for either team, giving the Quakers the lead. Another shot

by Hagopian in the 43rd minute was the last attempt for Yale in the first half.

Heading into the second half, the Yale offense opened up with a shot by midfielder Sarah McCauley ’18 that was saved by

the Penn goalkeeper. In the 74th minute, defender Meg Byfield ’18 made a pass to Gavin, who sank the ball into the net and tied the game at one. Each of the goalkeepers made one save before time expired, and both teams added one point to their conference season totals.

The Bulldogs have only three games left in the season, with their last non-conference game tonight against UMass Lowell.

The game, as well as their game against Columbia on Saturday, will be at home, before the Elis head to Brown to round out the season.

“The seniors are really happy that we get to play two out of our last three games at home,” Gavin added. “We had a long stretch of away games, so it’s nice to be back and playing in front of familiar faces on our home field for the last games of our career.”

The Bulldogs take on UMass Lowell tonight at 7 p.m. in Reese Stadium.

Contact SYDNEY GLOVER at sydney.glover@yale.edu .

Bulldogs fall to Penn, Albany FIELD HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 came out strong defensively in the first half, fending off Albany’s 14 shots.

In addition to being ranked, the Great Danes are leading the America East conference and had just extended their winning streak to eight with a victory over conference rival Maine.

“It was exciting to be up against a good team like Albany,” Nolan said. “It gave the team some confidence that will hopefully follow us into the last two games of the season.”

Yale took the lead when Villa scored the only goal of the first half on a penalty corner opportunity.

This marked only the third time this season that the Great Danes have had to play from behind in the first half.

The team would really love to win the last two Ivy League games … I’d love to see us come out on top.

KELSEY NOLAN ’17 Yale could not hold on after the break though, and Albany came back strong, taking 13 shots to Yale’s two and scoring four consecutive goals.

Yale finished the game with a goal from Nolan, who also scored on a penalty corner.

“Walking into the game of course Albany probably heavily underestimated our abilities due

Elis conquer tough conditions

to our record,” Wells said. “But by scoring that first goal we proved that our record definitely does not define or display our actual talents on this team.”

Although the Bulldogs are now on a five game losing streak, there is the silver lining that the Elis have put points on the board in their last four games. The three preceding losses all left Yale scoreless.

With the only two games left in the season, the team hopes to finish on a high note, according to players interviewed.

“In our last two games, we plan on maintaining that high energy and capitalizing on our opportunities, as we increasingly have been,” Villa said. “Our goals are to stick to the game plan and maintain solid fundamentals in order to create some attacking opportunities so that we can be successful.”

Yale will face Ancient Eight leader Columbia next Saturday, followed by a match with Brown the following weekend.

The Bulldogs are currently without a win against Ivy opponents but have confidence that they have the potential to be victorious in conference play, according to players.

“The team would really love to win the last two Ivy League games,” Nolan said. “We really have a good chance of beating both teams, and I’d love to see our team play strong and come out on top.”

Saturday’s game against Columbia will be the Elis’ last home game of the season.

Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .

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The No. 2 women’s sailing program finished at the front of the pack in the Stu Nelson Trophy at Connecticut College.

SAILING FROM PAGE 12 Bowdoin in a tie for fifth, but the Bulldogs won the tiebreaker thanks to their two first-place finishes compared to Bowdoin’s one.

In Boston, Yale competed in B and C-tier regattas — less competitive races that, according to Claire Huebner ’18, have no bearing on qualifications to the Match Racing, Women’s Atlantic Coast and Coed Atlantic Coast Championships. All three regattas, the biggest of the fall season, are the weekend of Nov. 15.

“The lower-tiered regattas are good practice for younger sailors or less experienced sailors,” Huebner said. “You can build depth on your team.”

Huebner was the skipper on the B Division boat in the Central Series 6 race. She and crew Amelia Dobronyi ’17 placed seventh in the division. That, combined with skipper Eric Anderson ’16 and crew Chandler Gregoire’s ’17 eighth-place finish in the A division, was enough to land the

Bulldogs in ninth place overall.

After six races on Saturday, Huebner and Dobronyi sat in fourth place.

“It was a really nice breeze strength for our weight and we were just doing a good job playing the shifts that came down the course,” Huebner said. “I hadn’t really sailed with Amelia before. I think we had pretty compatible boat handling, which was nice. We had some pretty good starts on Saturday.”

In the same city, the Bulldogs fielded three boats in pursuit of the 76th Annual Oberg Trophy. The boats combined for 579 points, leaving them in 14th place.

In the A Division, skipper Malcolm Lamphere ’18 and crew Sarah Smith ’15 placed 10th overall. Skipper Christopher Champa ’18 and crew Caroline Colwell ’18 came in 14th in the B Division. Meanwhile, C Division skipper Katharina Knapp ’18 and crew Isabelle Rossi De Leon ’17 placed 13th.

Again, the Bulldogs took advantage of favorable conditions on Saturday, but

according to Champa, were impeded by the weather on Sunday. Champa said that the wind was volatile, both in direction and velocity, making the race difficult for the team.

“We sent a pretty young team to this regatta — all freshman skippers,” Champa said. “We didn’t do quite as well as we had hoped, but it was a good learning experience. We haven’t had as much experience sailing on the Charles, which is notorious for being a tricky venue. We took a lot away from it. Hopefully it will make us better.”

Next weekend, the women’s team heads up to Dartmouth College to race for the Victorian Coffee Urn, and the coed team will compete for the 74th Erwin Schell Trophy at the University of Vermont, the Dave Perry Trophy at Yale and the Nickerson Trophy at the New England Freshman Championship at Tufts University.

All races begin at 9:30 a.m.

Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

Yale tennis thrives at home MEN’S TENNIS FROM PAGE 12 together, but we were excited to see what we could accomplish,” Doehler said. “We started off a bit rocky, but as the tournament progressed we really figured out how to complement one another. That’s the key thing in doubles — being able to build off your partner.”

In the semifinal match on the other side of the bracket, Faierman and Lu eliminated the last non-Yale pair, Andrew Ginzberg and Zac McEntee of UConn, guaranteeing an all-Eli final. Meanwhile, the freshman tandem of Andrienko and Doehler defeated Martin Svenning ’16 and Ziqi Wang ’18 8–6.

In a competitive championship match, Faierman and Lu faced Andrienko and Doehler. The tussle between the two Eli duos was close, but Faierman and Lu escaped with an 8–7 victory over their teammates.

Tyler and Daniel played some tough tennis. It was a really interesting match.

STEFAN DOEHLER ’18

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The field hockey team has two more games, both of which are Ivy contests. One is at Brown and one is at home against Columbia.

“Tyler and Daniel played some tough tennis and it was a really intense match, coming down to the wire in a tiebreaker,” Doehler said. “It’s always tough having to play your teammates, but we know to leave everything on the court. At the end of the day we’re all still best buds.”

The Bulldogs excelled in singles play as well. Yale was represented in the singles draw by eleven different players.

Andrienko, Doehler, Wang, Lu, Svenning, Faiderman and Photos Photiades ’17 all recorded straight-set victories, sending them into the Round of 16.

The Elis won five of their seven matches in the Round of 16, sending Andrienko, Doehler, Wang, Lu and Photiades into quarterfinal matches. In two all-Bulldog

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The Bulldogs triumphed as the Connecticut state champs in both singles and doubles play this past weekend. matches, Lu defeated Andrienko while Wang overcame Photiades. Faierman joined his teammates in the semis after an easy 6–0, 6–0 victory against his overmatched Quinnipiac opponent.

Lu eliminated the last non-Eli in the singles draw, again forcing an all-Yale final. Wang advanced to the championship match to face Lu after mounting a come-from-behind win over Faierman 2-6, 6-4, 1–0. Lu, ranked No. 84 in

the country by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, defended his 2013 Connecticut State Championships title, defeating Wang 6–4, 6–4.

The Bulldogs will travel to Flushing, N.Y. on Nov. 6 to compete at the USTA/ ITA Indoor Intercollegiate Championships.

Contact KATIE SABIN at kaitlyn.sabin@yale.edu .

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Light south wind increasing to 5 and 10 mph in the morning.

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ON CAMPUS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28 12:00 PM Examining the Life of Oyabe Zen’ichir : The New Formation of Modern Japanese Identity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Come to a lecture by Kazumi Hasegawa, CEAS postdoctoral associate and lecturer in history.

She received her Ph.D. at Emory University in 2013, and her dissertation reconstructs the life history of Oyabe Zen’ichir (1867–1941), examining the formation of his Japanese identity within international racial discourse of the time. The dissertation also analyzes how Oyabe encountered the crucial intellectual discourses of “civilization” at the turn of the twentieth century.

Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), Rm. 218, East Asia Library.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29

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12:30 PM Gallery Talk, Art This Way: Graphic Design in the Museum. Christopher Sleboda, director of graphic design, gives a walking tour of signage, wayfinding and exhibition graphics at the gallery. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

7:30 PM Film screening: Apparition of the Eternal Church.

Come enjoy a film by Paul Festa (Yale College ’96), featuring eight artists with Yale connections. Screening will be followed by a panel discussion. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.)

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30 5:30 PM Lecture, Out of Clay: The Primacy of Craft in Southern California Art. Andrew Perchuk, deputy director at the Getty Research Institute, examines the unique role that ceramics played in shaping an avant-garde in Southern California. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

7:00 PM Haunted Hall Crawl and Costume Ball. Embrace your Halloween spirit at the Peabody Museum for a spine-tingling evening of terror as you explore the Museum’s haunted halls, enjoy witches’ brew and dance with their delightful skeleton crew.

18 and over. Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (170 Whitney Ave.).

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Everything happens for a reason, kids think

BY KELSI CAYWOOD CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale psychologists have come to a new conclusion about the way children tackle an old question: Does everything happen for a reason?

According to the study, published Oct. 18 online and forthcoming in the journal Child Development, young children prefer purpose-based explanations of life events, indicating a proclivity toward seeking meaning in both the social and natural worlds. The researchers, from the Yale Mind and Development Lab, gave fiveto-10-year-olds the same scenarios with differing interpretations, and asked the children which they preferred. A vast majority of the children found interpretations that pointed to a higher design preferable, although older children were less likely to demonstrate the preference.

“We started off with a broad interest in [why] so many people seem to believe that everything happens for a reason,” said Konika Banerjee GRD ’16, lead author of the study and a researcher with the Yale Mind and Development Lab. “We were really interested in figuring out where this type of belief comes from.”

The researchers conducted three experiments across different age groups: five-to-sevenyear-olds, eight-to-10-year-olds and adults. Those in the youngest age group preferred event interpretations that gave the situation design and intention. “Brianna’s pet puppy ran away from home”

was one of the 10 test trial events researchers posed to the children and adults. “Because Brianna left the front door open” was the non-teleological explanation; “Because it was meant to teach Brianna that looking after a pet is a big responsibility” was the teleological explanation. The majority of children preferred event interpretations that proposed a deeper meaning in addition to the event’s natural material cause over interpretations that solely spoke to natural causes. That is, purposeful explanations were more appealing to the children.

Deena Weisberg, senior fellow and lab director at the University of Pennsylvania’s Cognition & Development Lab, cited this “bias for explanation that references an ultimate goal or purpose,” as one of two important findings from the study. She also underscored the significance of Banerjee and psychology professor Paul Bloom’s finding that this preference decreased in the older participants.

Past research has shown that children assign meaning to the world around them to such a degree that they will think, for instance, that a mountain is there for climbing, or a tree there for oxygen. Adults assign similar meaning to events in their lives, albeit on a less extreme scale, according to other research — including a recent study from Banerjee and Bloom.

While past research has focused on children’s beliefs about purpose and design in nature, this was the first to see if that teleological

thinking extended to life events. “[The presence of teleological thinking] has been demonstrated in other places and with other types of phenomena, but this is the first time it has been demonstrated for events,” Weisberg said.

Banerjee said that research has shown that both theist and — to a lesser degree — atheist adults believe in a deeper reason or plan, indicating that a tendency for teleological explanations of the world — seeking meaning — is not contingent on belief in a divine power.

Through an increasing number of studies on why humans believe what they believe, Banerjee and Bloom have explored the theory that there is a social-cognitive bias to see the world in terms of agency, purpose and design.

Humans want to understand their peers’ minds and behavioral motivations, they suggest. But that desire also extends into nonhuman spheres, and particularly so for children.

The study has important religious and cross-cultural connections, researchers said.

“The findings converge with a growing body of research indicating that, from early on, we have cognitive tendencies that provide fertile ground for religious ideas,” Boston University psychology professor and director of the school’s Child Cognition Lab Deborah Kelemen said.

“Not only do we possess biases that naturally support beliefs in creation, gods, spirits and eternity but these results suggest we are also disposed to believe in fate

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and karma.”

She added that one of the downsides of the human tendency to operate within this framework is that it may lead people to unfairly judge others for life events they cannot control. If everything

happens for a reason, she said, then there are no accidents — people experience tragedy because it is “meant to be” and perhaps even because they deserve it.

“It may promote some unfortunate and unpleasant social atti-

tudes,” Kelemen said.

The study was partially funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Contact KELSI CAYWOOD at kelsi.caywood@yale.edu .

Extreme altruism may come naturally

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BY ERIC LIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Those who risk their lives to save others do so instinctively, a new Yale study suggests.

Using the testimony of recipients of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission — awarded to those who perform acts of extreme heroism — the study, published in PLOS ONE on Oct. 15, found that the recipients overwhelmingly reported their acts to be intuitive. The results run contrary to the general view that people are inherently selfish and act altruistically only after deliberation.

“People who risk their lives to save strangers almost always

describe their choice to help as being spontaneous and ‘from the gut,’” said David Rand, coauthor of the study and professor of psychology, economics and management.

Rand’s work deals primarily with pro-social, cooperative behavior — behavior that comes at a personal cost but yields greater benefits to others. He identified cooperation as an integral part of human society.

Most of his work uses economic games in a laboratory setting. This particular study generalized his findings about human psychology to the real world, where there are higher stakes with every decision made, Rand said.

According to the study, extreme altruism, where someone risks his or her own life to save another, fits the framework of cooperation as long as the chance of survival for both parties is high enough.

The study collected published interviews from CHFC awardees and asked study participants to rate the level of intuition and deliberation in the awardees’ statements. Those considered most intuitive were rated ‘1,’ while those considered most deliberative were given a ‘7.’ An example of such a statement is, “I’m thankful I was able to act and not think about it,” by Christine Marty, a college student who rescued a drowning 69-year-old

trapped in a car during a flashflood.

The researchers followed up this phase of the experiment, which they noted in the study relied heavily on “inexpert human raters,” with a second stage that utilized computers. Using the Linguistic Inquiry Word Count, researchers counted the frequency of specific words associated with deliberation and intuition in the awardees’ statements. The second stage corroborated the results of the first.

The results are part of a growing movement to use psychology and economics to document prosocial behavior, said Stanford psychology professor Jamil Zaki.

Yarrow Dunham, professor of

psychology at Yale, and Zaki both noted that a common intuition is that selfless behavior arises after an individual has reflected that an action is the right thing to do because it is in society’s best interest. The study contradicted that idea.

Although the study dealt with extreme altruists, it remains to be studied how their behavior relates to the general population.

“There are probably a lot of non-heroes,” Zaki said.

Laurie Santos, psychology professor and director of the Comparative Cognition Lab and Canine Cognition Center, asked whether there is even a difference between extreme altruists and others who never find them-

selves in such situations.

“Were those extreme altruists just put into special sorts of situations, or is there a real individual difference between extreme altruists and normal folks?” she said.

Rand is currently working to systematize his results by creating mathematical models that map the development of intuitive altruism, he said.

The last New Haven resident recognized by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission was John Valenti, a postal service truck driver who intervened in the assault of a police officer in 2004.

Contact ERIC LIN at eric.v.lin@yale.edu .

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“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

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In elderly, mindset affects physical function

BY DAVID SHIMER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A recent Yale study has found that changing the way older individuals view themselves can improve their health.

Researchers showed elderly participants words that invoked a positive view of aging, and then administered tests to measure their physical function. Compared to those in the control group, those who were exposed to positive stereotypes of aging saw their physical function and self-perceptions improve. The study, led by researchers from the School of Public Health, the School of Medicine and the University of Berkeley’s Department of Demography was published in the journal Psychological Science on Oct. 17, and was composed of 100 individuals with an average age of 81.

“We were able to strengthen positive age stereotypes, and we were able to reduce negative age stereotypes of our older participants,” said lead author and Yale public health professor Becca Levy.

“We also found that the physical function effect remained for three weeks after the intervention ended.”

According to Jeff Hausdorff, a professor at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, previous research in this area has shown that negative stereotypes of aging are associated with a decline in physical function. But this study is the first to show that intervening against these negative stereotypes by exposing elderly people to positive stereotypes actually improves physical function, he said.

Levy and her team created two experimental groups, one in which study participants were implicitly exposed to positive age stereotypes and another in which they were asked to write about positive aspects of aging — an explicit exposure. Implicit exposure means that people are unaware of the information being conveyed to them, while explicit exposure means people are aware.

Members of the implicit exposure group were asked to watch a computer screen until they saw a flash and then report to researchers where it appeared. Unbeknownst to them, the flashes displayed words like “wise” and “creative,” but appeared so fleetingly that they were unable to process the words.

In accordance with the study’s

hypothesis, the implicit exposure group showed strong improvement in positive age stereotype, perceptions of aging and physical function while the explicit exposure group showed no significant improvement in any of these areas.

If you believe negative things about yourself … you’re going to bear the emotional weight.

JOHN PACHANK Professor at the School of Public Health “If you believe negative things about yourself, such as about yourself as an aging person, you’re going to bear the emotional weight of believing yourself to be inferior,” School of Public Health professor John Pachankis said in an email.

“This type of chronic stress can impair immunity, lead to unhealthy cardiovascular responses and ultimately disrupt health even at a cellular level.”

The study hypothesized that explicit exposure, on the other

hand, “may be thwarted by cognitive strategies that preserve existing beliefs.”

School of Medicine professor Martin Slade, who co-authored the study, explained that specially designed interventions could increase positive-age stereotypes across the population. If doing so improved physical function among older individuals, health care costs could go down, he said in an email.

To build on this study, which looked into whether self-perception is part of the mechanism by which physical function improves, Levy said she would like to look into the different levels on which these age stereotypes operate.

“Age stereotypes probably operate on a behavioral level, on a physiological level and [on] a psychological level,” she said. “Trying to better understand the different levels that operate and how those mechanisms interact with each other is something we’re really interested in.”

According to the World Health Organization, the average life span in the United States is 82 for females and 77 for males.

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

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Q&A: Exploring spirituality and well-being

BY MICHELLE LIU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Mark Lazenby is an assistant professor at the Yale School of Nursing who recently coauthored, with Mei Bai YSN ’14, a review of studies that examines associations between spiritual well-being and quality of life in cancer patients. The study will be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Palliative Medicine. The News talked to Lazenby about the research that he and Bai looked at to understand whether spirituality has any effect on these patients’ experiences. do you measure spiriQHow tual well-being, and what is its relationship with quality of life?

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There is a scale that has been tested in different populations, particularly patients with cancer, that measures spiritual well-being. The scale is called the FACIT, which stands for Func-

tional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy/Spiritual-Wellbeing. It’s a 12 item-scale that has three subscales, which we call factors. One factor measures Meaning, another measures Peace and another measures Faith. “I have a purpose in life” is a Meaningtype question [or statement that patients rate]. “I have peace of mind” is a Peace-type question, and “My illness has strengthened my faith” is a Faith-type question. Quality of life generally has four or five domains. The standard four are physical, functional, social/family and emotional wellbeing. Then the fifth would be spiritual well-being. Those facets have been developed over the last 30 years in many different studies to actually find out from patients what quality of life consists of for them. you explain the trends QCan found in the review?

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Primarily, Meaning and Peace [are associated] with other aspects of quality of life consistently across all of the studies, but Faith didn’t necessarily [associate with these aspects]. In some populations, Faith has associations, and in others, not.

studying the effect of the cancer or the treatment on people’s quality of life. One might imagine that you can slow the progression of the cancer but the sort of cost of quality of life from the treatment might be too great for a lot of people.

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Are these findings or trends seen amongst patients with other chronic diseases?

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I don’t know how widely it’s studied among patients with other chronic diseases. The important point here is that in the ’80s, the National Cancer Institute made quality of life an endpoint in cancer research, so there’s been a lot of quality of life research among cancer patients. Think of it as if we’re studying a drug, looking to see if it slows the progression of the cancer or actually improves overall survival. What was happening was people were studying a drug to see its effect on the tumor, but never were they

What might be the practical applications of finding these associations between quality of life and overall spiritual well-being?

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When we assess for patients’ quality of life, we’re very comfortable assessing for physical symptoms, and even their functional well-being — can they do things that they want to do, even their activities of daily living? We also ask about mood — are they sad or depressed or anxious? But very rarely do we assess in everyday practice whether or not they have peace of mind amid the cancer experience, or whether or not they’re finding meaning and purpose in life, and I think adding

those to our standard symptom assessment would help patients who struggle with questions of meaning in life when they face cancer. is the next step in, or traQWhat jectory for research in terms of studying quality of life in cancer patients?

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The next step is really developing interventions that focus on improving patients’ senses of meaning and peace.

There are some interventions that have been developed — for example, William Breitbart [Acting Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center] has developed an intervention called meaningcentered psychotherapy, and it is tailored for patients at the end of life, so they can find meaning even though they’re dying. I think we need to take those kinds of psychotherapies and bring them up

much earlier into the cancer care continuum, to the time when people are diagnosed and are asking existential questions. It’s either adapting those types of interventions or developing interventions for the newly diagnosed patient.

Spirituality is a topic that often health care providers are unsure about broaching with patients because it seems very private in our society. We’ve become quite comfortable at assessing patients’ sexual functions, especially when cancer treatment gets in the way of that, but it’s as if spirituality is even a little more private than sexual functions. We need to get over that fear, and ask patients whether or not they’re experiencing any spiritual distress. Many will say “no,” and many will say “it’s not your business,” but some may [say “yes”], and for those, we need to intervene and help improve their spiritual quality of life.

Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

Previously dangerous drug could treat diabetes

BY STEVEN LEWIS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Researchers at Rutgers and Yale may have identified a drug that treats Type II Diabetes (T2D) in rats — but is already on the shelves for treatment of tapeworm infections. The study was completed in May and published Oct. 5 in Nature Medicine.

Using two groups of rats — one with type II diabetes caused by diet, and the other carrying the disease through genetics — the researchers fed niclosamide ethanolamine (NEN), an altered form of an already FDA-approved drug, to their animal subjects.

Fat in the liver of both groups of

rats decreased, indicating that the drug selectively targeted the liver. Because the original form of the drug functions by decoupling tapeworms’ mitochondria from their cells, the researchers thought it could serve the same function in rat cells. Scientists have attempted to decouple mitochondria in the past for weight loss, but to no avail —the technique leads to spikes in body temperature when done a certain way, and subjects ended up dying of hyperthermia. The new drug treatment, then, is not novel in its technique, but novel in its safety.

“The beauty of NEN is that it is equally effective as DNP [a mitochondrial uncoupler used for

weight loss in the 1930s that led to several deaths], but it does not associate with the adverse effects like increase in body temperature,” senior author and pharmacology professor at Rutgers Medical School Victor Jin said. “This suggests that the cause of T2D, which is ectopic accumulation of lipids in muscle and liver, could be targeted safely.”

Compared to the control group, rats that received mitochondria uncoupling therapy exhibited improved glycemic control, insulin sensitivity and weight loss after eight weeks of NEN consumption.

The mechanism of uncoupling mitochondria is particularly

effective in targeting weight loss because it decreases the proton gradient in cells, making it more difficult to produce the energy needed to survive. Increased difficulty means more fat will be used to produce each molecule of fat, increasing inefficiency, but also the amount of fat the body burns.

According to Gerald Shulman, senior author and professor of cellular and molecular physiology at the School of Medicine, uncouplers like NEN cause “mitochondria to burn more fat to generate the same proton gradient to drive ATP synthase. It’s a very simple mechanism that if done in a livertargeted manner, can be done safely.”

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Other mitochrondrial uncouplers like DNP — which is no longer approved by the FDA for weight loss — have been effective in decreasing lipid content, but have produced harmful side effects, Jin said. The novelty of the study lies in the safety of the drug and the specificity of its action to the liver — other drugs, unable to target specific areas, would uncouple mitchondria in cells throughout the body.

According to Shulman, the study provides evidence for his theory that T2D is caused by accumulation of fat in the liver and muscles. Shulman has proposed that intracellular fats interfere with insulin’s ability to transport glucose between the bloodstream, liver and muscle cells. That obstruction makes cells less efficient at processing glucose and leads to elevated glucose levels in the blood, resulting in T2D, Shulman has theorized.

Richard Kibbey, professor of cellular and molecular physiology at the School of Medicine, who was not involved in the study, agreed that the findings lend credence to Shulman’s idea.

“This finding is exciting because it supports the role that melting away fat in the liver is the key to improving glucose homeostasis,” he said.

In contrast to most T2D drugs, this class of drugs aims to target the root cause of the disease instead of just alleviating symptoms, Jin said.

But according to Yale chemistry professor David Spiegel MD ’04 GRD ’04, there may be some road-blocks in getting this drug to the public.

“Uncouplers tend to have very narrow therapeutic ratios. The effective or therapeutic dose is often very close to the toxic

dose,” he said. “So the uncoupling mechanism is one that makes pharma quite uncomfortable.”

To follow up on their results, both researchers at Rutgers and Yale are preparing for IND (investigative new drug)-enabling studies that will involve modified formulations of NEN and new compounds that they hope will be more efficacious, Jin and Shulman said. Approval of IND-enabling studies is the key step before initiating clinical trials in humans — the ultimate goal.

“With the existing drugs, patients have to take them for the rest of their lives, and lots of them will become resistant to the drugs and develop complications like blindness, kidney failure, cardiovascular disease and heart failure,” Jin said. “We need to develop new drugs that will target the cause of this disease and could therefore hold a cure for some patients.”

Jin cofounded a privately funded biotech company, Mitobiopharm, that owns the rights to use NEN from this study for commercial use and clinical trials.

Shulman’s group at Yale is also working to develop a new compound, similar to NEN, that he hopes to test in primates before moving to IND-enabling trials.

His work is motivated by the rapidly increasing rates of T2D. “Diabetes is an epidemic, and the cost to U.S. society alone exceeds $200 billion a year in direct and indirect costs,” Shulman said. “In less than 15 years, over a third of a billion people will be impacted by this disease.”

Currently about 10 percent of the U.S. population is affected by T2D. Contact STEVEN LEWIS at steven.lewis@yale.edu .

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MELISSA GAVIN ’15 WOMEN’S SOCCER Gavin netted a game-tying goal in the 74th minute against Penn to salvage a point for the Bulldogs — and for her efforts, she was named to the Ivy League Honor Roll. The senior from Duxbury, Mass. had two of Yale’s six total shots on goal as well.

MATTHEW OPLINGER ’18 FOOTBALL The linebacker was named Ivy Rookie of the Week after displaying his versatility against Penn. He caught a twopoint conversion in the first quarter, returned a blocked field goal 48 yards later in the period and recorded a pass breakup on defense.

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“The difference between [Penn] and us was that they capitalized on the opportunities that they had to score.”

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Gavin ’15 salvages tie for Yale

BY SYDNEY GLOVER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER For the third time since the start of Ivy League play, the Yale women’s soccer team notched a tie, this time in a 1–1 draw against Penn on Saturday after forward Melissa Gavin ’15 scored in the second half to save the Bulldogs from defeat.

The match gave the Elis (6–4–3, 1–1–3 Ivy) one point and settled the squad into fifth place among the Ancient Eight with just two conference games to play. The squad remains one point behind Princeton, who felled the Bulldogs in their first Ivy League game of the season, as well as Columbia, which they will take on this Saturday at Reese Stadium.

While taking first place from Harvard is effectively out of reach for any team except Dartmouth, currently four points behind the Crimson, the Bulldogs have a chance to capitalize on their games against Columbia and Brown and strive for a higher standing by the end of

the season.

Midfielder Geny Decker ’17 added that playing at home boosted the spirits of the team when they were stepping out onto the field and put them in a good mentality.

The Quakers’ (5–5–3, 1–3– 1) lone Ivy League win came against Columbia in a 1–0 victory. In five games, Penn has allowed seven goals, one of the worst records in the league, but the team also has one of the highest numbers of saves at 35.

Though their defense is solid, the Quakers have the lowest numbers of shots at 126. Every other team has over 150.

The Bulldogs had the opposite problem, with a high number of shots but a low rate of capitalization. Though Yale has averaged 12.8 shots per game, it has struggled to find the back of the net, scoring just 1.2 times per match. Gavin broke the team’s five-game scoreless streak against Cornell just before fall break, and the Elis looked to SEE WOMEN’S SOCCER PAGE 8

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The women’s soccer team has scored just two goals in its five conference matches.

Field hockey drops two at home

Elis sail across Northeast

BY MAYA SWEEDLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale sailing team found varying degrees of success at four regattas throughout New England this weekend.

SAILING The women’s team, ranked second in the country, placed first out of 18 at the Stu Nelson Trophy at Connecticut College.

The coed team, ranked first in the country, placed fifth at the Hoyt Trophy at Brown, ninth at the Central Series 6 at Boston College and 14th at the 76th Annual Oberg Trophy, held at Northeastern. The races were 18-boat fleet races.

At Connecticut College, skipper Morgan Kiss ’15 and crew Natalya Doris ’17

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The Bulldogs have put up eight goals in their past four contests. Their previous three losses were shutouts.

BY HOPE ALLCHIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale field hockey team had another difficult weekend at home, culminating in two losses — one against Penn and another against then-No. 13 Albany.

FIELD HOCKEY On Saturday, Penn (6–7, 2–3 Ivy) defeated Yale (2–13, 0–5) 2–1, while Albany (15–2, 4–0 America East) sent the Bulldogs home with a 4–2 loss on Sunday despite initial leads by the Elis in both games.

“It’s been a tough season, but our team is strong both mentally and physically,” back Noelle Villa ’16 said. “Having the lead going into the first half of Albany confirmed that our team is headed in the right direction with our training and our team attitude.”

In the conference matchup against Penn, both teams kept the other from scoring, resulting in a 0–0 score at halftime. In

the first half alone, goalkeeper Heather Schlesier ’15 had seven saves, turning aside all of Penn’s 11 attempts to break through the defense and into the net.

Schlesier leads the Ivy League in number of saves over the season, with 131 through Yale’s 15 contests.

Yale scored the first goal of the game at 41:30 when back Kiwi Comizio ’18 put the ball in the net after a rebounded shot from midfielder Kelsey Nolan ’17. The Bulldogs could not keep their lead, however, and let in two goals that went unanswered for the remainder of the game.

“We could have won against Penn,” captain Nicole Wells ’16 said. “The difference between them and us was that they capitalized on the opportunities that they had to score. We have been working on that aspect of the game all season.”

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sailed the A Division boat to four individual first-place finishes in the nine-race regatta. In the B Division, skipper Casey Klingler ’18 and crew Katherine Gaumond ’15 placed third overall.

The Bulldogs dominated on a river known for its difficult conditions.

“It’s a really tricky place to sail because the conditions there are really shifty,” Doris said. “We were pretty conservative, especially on the starting line. The current was a big factor. To compensate, we always made sure we were looking at big areas of strong wind. We were communicating a lot.”

After their first-place finishes — an improvement on their second-place finish at the Yale Women’s Intersectional Regatta last week — Kiss and Doris plan to sail together again next week at the Victo-

rian Coffee Urn regatta at Dartmouth College.

The Yale sailors who headed north did not find quite as much success as those who remained in-state.

As the 2013 winners of the Hoyt Trophy, the Bulldogs sailed into Providence intending to defend their title. However, a strong performance by eventual champion Fordham and strong Sunday winds foiled the Elis’ chances at a repeat.

Skipper Ian Barrows ’17 and crew Meredith Megarry ’17 and Charlotte Belling ’16 placed third in the A division. In the B Division, skipper Joseph Kiss ’17 and crew Clara Robertson ’17, Belling and Emily Johnson ’16 placed 10th. The two boats combined for 165 points, placing Yale and SEE SAILING PAGE 8

Yale sweeps state championships

BY KATIE SABIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale men’s tennis team walked away from the Connecticut State Championships this weekend with two trophies, claiming both the singles and doubles titles for the fourth consecutive year.

MEN’S TENNIS The Bulldogs hosted the seventh annual state championships, a tournament featuring the state’s most talented players from Yale, Quinnipiac, Fairfield, Hartford, Sacred Heart and UConn. By the conclusion of play on Sunday, Tyler Lu ’17 won the singles crown, defending his 2013 title.

Lu and his partner Daniel Faierman ’15 were also the doubles victors.

“It was nice to end the fall season on a high note,” Faierman said. “But there is still a ton of room for improvement, and we’re

looking to get better for the spring.”

The Elis started the tournament strong, with a combined 15–4 record after the first day of competition on Friday. Doubles play was exceptionally strong, as all five doubles pairings earned spots in the quarterfinals.

After two tough wins in singles play, Jason Brown ’16 and Matt Saiontz ’15 teamed up in doubles to defeat a Sacred Heart duo with a comfortable 8–3 win. Later, in a back-andforth match, the pair overcame Kei Ezaka and Jonas Kuwert of Quinnipiac 8–6, sending the Yale pair into the quarterfinals.

In the all-Yale quarterfinal match, Fedor Andrienko ’18 and Stefan Doehler ’18 defeated teammates Brown and Saiontz with a decisive 8–1 victory.

“Fedor and I had never played a tournament

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Tyler Lu ’17 won singles by defeating Ziqi Wang ’18, and Lu and Daniel FaiSEE MEN’S TENNIS PAGE 8 erman ’15 claimed the doubles title.

NUMBER OF PLAYERS ON THE YALE WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM WHO HAVE THREE GOALS. Forwards Geny Decker ’17 and Melissa Gavin ’15, along with midfielders Frannie Coxe ’15 and Sarah McCauley ’18 each lead the team with three goals, combining for 12 of the Bulldogs’ 16 total scores.